The Study of World Art in Washington, DC

Time: 02/05/2016, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location: Salon 2, Lobby Level

Introducing and Studying Islamic Art On and Off the National Mall
Marianna Shreve Simpson, University of Pennsylvania

The Pan-American City: Ancient American Art in Washington, DC, 1914-1964
Joanne Pillsbury, Metropolitan Museum of Art 

The Formation, Collection, and Study of African Art in the Capital City
Steven D. Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles

1906: Freer, Roosevelt, Japan, and the Politics of Culture
James Ulak, The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

How Did Freer and Chinese Art Produce Each Other?
Eugene Wang, Harvard University

Chairs: Elizabeth Cropper and Therese O’Malley